Intelligence Failure

The seven blasts that ripped through first-class compartments on local Western Railway trains headed towards Mumbai's suburbs during the peak hour of evening traffic on Tuesday, July 11, was not just a failure of the intelligence machinery as Maharashtra's home minister R R Patil would have us believe. It was a failure of governance at all levels, starting with the country's UPA coalition government, extending to the Congress-NCP combine in Maharashtra and continuing all the way down to the beat...

NEW DELHI: Former Home Minister P Chidambaram today attacked Home Minister Rajnath Singh accusing him of resorting to a completely distorting Hindu terror remarks to blame the former UPA government. He said former Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the UPA regime had questioned Hindu terror in a very different context but Singh's statement was a completely diversionary argument. Chidambaram said Shinde made a statement outside...

NEW DELHI: The terror attack in Punjab is a result of intelligence failure, Congress leader Anand Sharma said on Monday. "The terror attack is not only a security lapse at the border but also a failure of intelligence agencies," Sharma told the media here. The Congress leader said the government should reveal what assurances Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their meeting in Ufa in Russia in June. "On what...

NEW YORK: Outgoing US President George W Bush has admitted that he was "unprepared for war" when he joined Oval office and said his "biggest regret" during his eight year tenure was the "intelligence failure" on Iraq. "I think, I was unprepared for war," Bush told ABC News in first of his farewell interviews that he plans to give to various media outlets. "I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other...

NEW DELHI: Congress today lashed out at Home Minister Rajnath Singh for travelling to Madhya Pradesh while terrorists struck in Punjab and dubbed the incident as a "cocktail of failure" of intelligence, law and order, administrative and political machinery. "It is a cocktail of intelligence failure, of law and order failure and administrative and political failure", party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters adding that India cannot show...

NEW DELHI: The terror attack in Punjab is a result of intelligence failure, Congress leader Anand Sharma said on Monday. "The terror attack is not only a security lapse at the border but also a failure of intelligence agencies," Sharma told the media here. The Congress leader said the government should reveal what assurances Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at their meeting in Ufa in Russia in June. "On what...

NEW DELHI: The CPM on Thursday said the bloodbath in Assam has once again exposed the failure of intelligence and security apparatus under the Manmohan Singh government. In a statement, the CPM polit bureau said the serial blasts were a continuation of the anti-national terror acts witnessed in various parts of the country in the recent past. "These blasts have once again exposed the failure of the intelligence and security apparatus. The Congress-led UPA...

RAIPUR: Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi today alleged that intelligence failure and "BJP's conspiracy" were responsible for the last week's Naxal attack in Bastar. "The state government was well aware of the scheduled route of the Parivartan rally of Congress and in spite of that adequate security was not provided there," Jogi said today. "Union Home Ministry had tipped off the state about the movement of Naxals in Bastar but...

NEW DELHI: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today condemned the serial blasts in Patna ahead of Narendra Modi's rally saying it was a "gross intelligence failure". "I strongly condemn the serial blasts on occasion of the BJP rally in Patna. This is a gross intelligence failure," she tweeted after the incident. Five people were killed and 66 injured in six serial bomb blasts near the venue of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in Patna...

PUNE: Dismissing "intelligence failure" in the Pune blast, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said the terrorists have hit a "soft target" like the German bakery which is frequented by foreigners and Indians alike. He maintained that the "hard targets" like the Osho Ashram and the Jewish Chabad House located near the bakery had been surveyed by US Lashker-e-Taiba suspect David Headley during his visit to India and the area was "in the radar" of security...

NEW DELHI: The killing of Anup Marandi, son of former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi, and 17 others during a football match in Giridih on Saturday highlights the lack of ground-level intelligence as much as it does the lapse on part of the police in having left the venue before the leaders and the crowds dispersed. And as senior CRPF officials admit, the poor intelligence on Left-wing extremists' designs could largely be due to gross mismanagement of the...

BENGALURU: A day after a senior IPS officer was suspended in connection with an alleged lottery scam, senior BJP leader and Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said the probe should be handed over to CBI as "top officials and some ministers are involved in it". "...just because top officials and some of the senior leaders-ministers of the present government are involved in this (single-digit lottery scam) - I think this cannot be investigated by the police of Karnataka. If they are...

WASHINGTON: A US panel tasked with reviewing the FBI has said that one of the main lessons learnt from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack case was that "relevant intelligence may fall by the wayside" in the absence of an intelligence effort to understand the connections among cases. A Congressionally mandated panel charged with reviewing the FBI's implementation of recommendations contained in the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004 issued its findings yesterday...

NEW DELHI: The deadly attacks in Assam that have left 72 people dead was not an intelligence failure, rather there were specific inputs available of an attack by the NDFB (S) faction, but forces could not be rushed to the area on time, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijuju has told ET. The State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Assam had sent a specific input to the state government on Tuesday morning, cautioning that there will...

IMPHAL: BJP has sought resignation of Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh accusing his government of failing to maintain law and order in the state, which has witnessed a series of bomb blasts recently. The series of bomb blasts in the past one week and loss of lives of innocent people indicated deterioration of law and order and intelligence failure in the state, party national secretary Tapir Gao told reporters last evening. The chief...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today condemned the serial bomb blasts in Patna , saying these seemed aimed at disturbing peace and communal harmony in the country. Describing the blasts as "a dastardly and inhuman act," he said such acts underlined once again the threat to both internal and external security of the country under the UPA regime. Badal said the possibility of the attacks being aimed at creating a scare...

NEW DELHI: Lack of war preparedness and failure to gather intelligence about Chinese troops' movement led to India's defeat in 1962 war , former Army chief Gen V K Singh said today. Addressing a seminar 'Dealing with China', he also said India had lacked correct political assessment at that time and there were no diplomatic measures to engage with the neighbour to know its intention. "It was a kick which woke us up. It was something which...

NEW DELHI: The deadly attacks in Assam that have left 72 people dead was not an intelligence failure, rather there were specific inputs available of an attack by the NDFB (S) faction, but forces could not be rushed to the area on time, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijuju has told ET. The State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in Assam had sent a specific input to the state government on Tuesday morning, cautioning that there will...

NEW DELHI: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today condemned the serial blasts in Patna ahead of Narendra Modi's rally saying it was a "gross intelligence failure". "I strongly condemn the serial blasts on occasion of the BJP rally in Patna. This is a gross intelligence failure," she tweeted after the incident. Five people were killed and 66 injured in six serial bomb blasts near the venue of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally in Patna minutes...

CHENNAI: Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh, who sparked a political storm by claiming that certain Jammu and Kashmir ministers received funds from the Army, today said the money was used only to bring harmony and stability in the state and not misused. "Let me clarify categorically. No Army funds have been misused in Kashmir. They have been used in Kashmir to bring in harmony, to ensure stability in that state,to ensure youth get involved in activities which are...